Word: interests
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...Congress disagreed. Vermont's Senator Ralph K. Flanders, himself an industrialist, reminded the steel managers that they had a responsibility beyond making money for their stockholders. Said he: "Apparently the steel industry does not yet realize.. . . that its decisions on prices must be in the public interest as well as its private interest." A top Republican policymaker in Congress, who had been neck-deep in the fight to take and keep controls off business, cried: "A cynical stunt ... a damned fool thing to do." Senator Robert A. Taft swiftly announced that "two or three typical steel leaders " would...
...have read with interest [TIME, Feb. 9] the statement of Dr. John Rock [the Roman Catholic doctor who passes out contraceptive information to non-Catholics though his own Church regards the use of contraceptives as immoral]. . . . We have often considered means of eliminating obnoxious neighbors, Sunday drivers and noisome editors...
There are other matters of grave interest to freedom-loving peoples, too-such as, What does the Italian Socialist really believe about America's intentions in sending him food, money and equipment? What does a man in Mexico feel about all of this U.S. attention to Europe when he has troubles of his own at home? Is the man on the street in Europe really interested in a United States of Western Europe, or is that just wishful thinking on the part of men like Bevin and Churchill...
Mesmer & Magnetism. Hypnotism has been inspiring public interest and noisy argument ever since the days, in 18th Century Paris, when Franz Anton Mesmer developed his controversial technique. It was first called mesmerism and then hypnotism (from a Greek word meaning sleep). In Mesmer's day, "magnetism" was the scientific catchword that "atomic" is today. Mesmer had already been kicked out of his native Vienna for acting on his belief that people got sick when they ran short of "magnetic fluid." He was out to show Paris that he could relieve the shortage. The Mesmer clinics are described...
Whether anything has occurred to change the minds of the Committee members since the fall meeting cannot be known, but the issue of what the memorial should be has generated considerable interest among alumni everywhere--interest reflected in letters to the Alumni Bulletin, to the individual members of the Saltonstall Committee, and to Henry C. Clark '11, secretary of the group...